Biography
John Cooper has engaged with health and social care topics primarily through eight debate speeches in Parliament, with contributions spanning palliative care and assisted dying legislation, prostate cancer awareness, and isolation-related health impacts in coastal communities. His interventions reflect a focus on procedural parliamentary matters regarding the assisted dying Bill, alongside raising awareness of specific health conditions affecting his constituents in Dumfries and Galloway. The speeches demonstrate engagement across multiple health domains rather than concentration on a single issue.
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“…Loneliness needs to be seen for what it is: a public health issue. Rural people, by nature, have to be resilient and self-reliant, and the fact is that no Government can do everything. I must mention the charity A Listening Ear, which in my community, movingly, has a programme called “No One Dies Alone”.”
Record by topic
- Assisted dying116th of 3716.0
- Cancer365th of 6223.0
- Heart disease & stroke174th of 3983.0
- Mental health654th of 8803.0
- Palliative & end of life care329th of 5683.0
- Public health & prevention417th of 6883.0
What they’ve said
“…We cannot let the emotional baggage of the assisted dying Bill override proper parliamentary procedure.…”
Progression of Bills through Parliament · 2026-06-08 · Read on Hansard ↗
“…We are here not to relitigate the substance of the assisted dying Bill, but to consider a profound change to the way we in this place carry out our duties as legislators.”
Progression of Bills through Parliament · 2026-06-08 · Read on Hansard ↗
“…Dumfries and Galloway constituency have done a power of work to make men aware of prostate disease and prostate cancer—just as well, given that prostate cancer is the most common cancer among men. One in eight of us will be diagnosed with it, and that figure rises to one in four for black men.”
Incontinence · 2025-06-19 · Read on Hansard ↗
“The hon. Gentleman is right. These are not free trade agreements in the normal sense of the words: they are frittering around the edges, as he said himself. The difficulty for beef farmers in Dumfries and Galloway is that prices are rising, which is partly down to a drop in stock because of costs and things like that,…”
Business and the Economy · 2025-05-21 · Read on Hansard ↗
“As the grandson of a steelworker in Corby, Northamptonshire, I understand something of the iconic nature of the industry. The hon. Lady tries to blame us Conservatives for what went wrong.”
Scunthorpe Steelworks · 2025-03-27 · Read on Hansard ↗
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